Samsung Wave S8500 review
For some of us jaded and cynical gadget bloggers, getting a feature phone to review is somewhat painful. We grumble and roll our eyes, then put the box in a corner of the office for "later." See, feature phones are really just wannabe smartphones -- like a walled garden full of weeds and broken glass, most feature phones are crippled with restrictions and a crappy user experience. But somehow this time, when we finally opened the box, we discovered something different: a smartphone disguised as a feature phone
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: broken, engadget, engadget-mobile, entry, experience, mobile, office, phones, review, samsung, samsung wave, showcase, walled
Stores open early June 4th for EVO 4G with mobile hotspot loophole
When you've got the world's most desired ** handset, you don't keep people waiting. As such, Sprint is recommending that its "preferred retailers" open extra early on June 4th
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: box, engadget, grab-the-new, hotspot, htc, initially-work, loophole, mobile, mobile hotspot, office, preferred, retailers, sprint
Latest Windows Phone 7 emulator ROM unlocked, has Office and other goodies
So the ROM included with the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools refresh that was launched this week (to get it up to speed with the final release of Visual Studio 2010) has already been unlocked and torn apart over on xda-developers , and as you might expect, there are quite a few changes and additions in here versus what we've seen in the previous release.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: additions, emulator, goodies, inclusion, microsoft, office, user, visual-studio, windows, windowsphone7, xda-developers
Updated Windows Phone 7 videos show Office doing awesome things
As much as Microsoft has revealed about Windows Phone 7 thus far in the past two months, one critical, differentiating element that it's going to be able to lord over its competitors -- true Office support -- has been a bit of a black box. We're starting to see a little bit more about the Office team's next-gen mobile product now, though, thanks to a pair of new videos that have been published this week. The first focuses on the email and calendar experience, but we do see one pretty awesome trick when the demo opens a PowerPoint file inline from the email client, edits it, and sends it back to the original sender.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: bit, client, entry, microsoft, office, peep, peep-the-videos, phone, winpho 7, winpho7
Word, Excel and OneNote for Windows Phone 7 Series revealed
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Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apps, emulator, fri, microsoft-office, microsoftoffice, office, Paste, phone, source, still-revealing, windows-phone, windowsphone7, word, wordmobile
Windows Phone 7 Series themes for WinMo abound in dev forums
We know that it ain't always practical or desirable to put money down on a phone every time a new OS or interface comes out -- so what is a gadget hound to do when they realize their hardware won't be supported by Windows Phone 7 Series ? Well, if you're anything like these enterprising individuals you roll your own.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: Appointments, individuals, jaxxbot, mimic-the-new, office, series, skin, skins, varying-degrees, windows phone 7 series, windows-mobile, windows-phone, windowsphone7series
Does this give a hint to where the office powerpath is coming from ?
The Biological Notion of Self and Non-self
First published Tue May 21, 2002; substantive revision Tue May 19, 2009
Fundamental to biology are (1) defining the characteristics of identity, which distinguish individual organisms from those of similar kind, and (2) describing the mechanisms that defend organisms from their predators. Immunology is the science devoted to these problems. A progeny of late 19th-century pathology and microbiology, and the clinical discipline of infectious diseases, immunology did not attain a formal theoretical construction until after World War II, when “the self” was introduced to provide a ready and convenient metaphor for deciphering immune reactivity. In the original formulation, normally, host constituents are ignored by the immune system, while “the other” — pathogens, foreign substances, altered host elements—are processed and destroyed. By the late 1970s, “the self” became the foundation of immune theorizing, and immunology dubbed itself the science of “self/non-self discrimination. ” But this dominant model has recently been challenged, for the self is polymorphous and ill-defined. Contemporary transplantation biology and autoimmunity have demonstrated phenomena that fail to allow strict adherence to such a dichotomy of self/non-self, and as new models are emerging, “the self” has been left exposed as a metaphor, whose grounding — philosophically and scientifically — is unsteady and thus increasingly elusive as the putative nexus of immunology’s doctrines.
•1. Introduction
•2. Historical Antecedents
•3. Origins of the Immune Self
•4. Twentieth Century Constructions of the Immune Self
•5. The Autonomous Immune System
•6. Expanding the Borders
•7. New Systemic Approaches
•8. The Immune Self, Theory or Metaphor?
•Bibliography
•Other Internet Resources
•Related Entries
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1. Introduction
At an important nexus of pathology, clinical medicine, and basic biology, immunology has served several research agendas and thus defies a single, unifying experimental framework. Rather it is (and has been) characterized by multiple, even competing thought-styles (Crist and Tauber 1997), each requiring a different methodological apparatus to order its experimental program. But underlying each branch of immunology, the concept of an identified and protected “self,” a theoretical construction and fecund metaphor, has served as the central theme which integrates this diverse discipline. Indeed, the fate of “the self” in immunology offers a historical understanding of how the science has evolved.
Immunology during the first half of the twentieth century was preoccupied with the more focused chemical questions of immune specificity, and the broader biological questions concerning immune identity remained unformulated. But after World War II, transplantation and autoimmunity became increasingly relevant both to basic immunologists and clinicians. These later concerns required a theoretical apparatus that explicitly addressed the question of biological identity and individuality. It was at this juncture that Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet introduced the “self” into the immunological lexicon (Burnet and Fenner 1949), and upon that metaphor erected a theory of immunological tolerance that still dominates the field.
“Tolerance” refers to the immune system’s “silence” when faced with potential targets of destruction, thus allowing host constituents and some foreign elements an adopted co-equal status within the organism. Tolerance and autoimmunity are two sides of the proverbial coin: In one instance, the immune system is seen to ignore the host, and even foreign components, while in the other modality, the immune system attacks what is regarded by the outside observer as “self. ” These findings challenged the notion of a “one-directional” schema of immune reactivity, for tolerance was shown to be more than a passive silence of immune function, but required a more complex balance of responses. By the 1990s, immunologists increasingly appreciated that an immune self, representing a fortress from which attacking lymphocytes might sally forth to destroy invaders, offered a naive depiction of what was, in fact, a dynamic equilibrium in which “attacked” and “tolerated” were not easily predicated.
The simple model of immunity as committed to discerning those mechanisms by which the “self” discriminates host elements from the foreign requires revision. No longer is the identity of the host organism given or assumed, and, indeed, immune selfhood embraces diverse definitions: (1) “organismal self”—the epistemological functional category immunologists typically employ; (2) the “immunological self”—an ontological construction which draws from molecular definitions and builds upon Burnet’s theory of tolerance; and (3) the “immune self”—a metaphysical formulation of the system-as-a-whole (Ulvestad 2007, pp. 88 f
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HP Office Quickpack Paper, 92 Brightness, 8.5 x 11 Inches, 2500 Sheets
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